Animal, vegetable, miracle - Rambling Readers

No cover — Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, vegetable, miracle (2017)

416 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2017

ISBN:: 978-0-06-265305-5
OCLC Number:: 986223428

(1 review)

"When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. 'Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed, starting with dirt, seeds, and enough knowledge to muddle through. Or starting with baby animals, and enough sense to refrain from naming them'"--

1 edition

crabbygirl reviewed Animal, vegetable, miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Review of 'Animal, vegetable, miracle' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

read this when it first came out and eating local was all the rage. this second turn was for bookclub. my assessment hasn't really changed: aside from the hilarity of her turkeys' sex life, this material is a waste of Kingsolver's talents as a writer and the magazine-like interruptions from her husband lecturing the reader to 'do' (as opposed to our voluntary task: read) were equally unwelcome. but if roping him into the project was an attempt to stay connected and married, it worked. this edition is the 10th anniversary and they are still together, although it may have also cost her name-recognition support of a restaurant he proposed.

Subjects

Country life
Food habits
Farm life
Agriculture
Anecdotes

Places

Southern Appalachian Region